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Resources in Mac OS X

There are several reasons to use resources in your application:

• They can reduce the amount of code needed to create your application’s user interface.

• They make it possible to change your application’s user interface without changing any code.

• They make it easy to localize your application’s user-visible content.

• They can store other types of custom data that might be difficult or time-consuming to create at runtime.

The following sections describe the types of resources typically found in Mac OS X applications and how you use them.

Contents:

Nib Files
String Resources
Image, Sound, and Multimedia Resources
Property Lists
Other Resource Files
Legacy Resource Files

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